Celibacy

Celibacy still affects an individual’s ISIS Wheel; all four quadrants are still active. Erotic dreams and fantasies fall into the mental quadrant, which in returns affects the physical quadrant. Fantasies allow us to go to places we never thought possible…

In the Late Middle Ages, Europe was plagued with corruption on a large scale. The Catholic Church was suffering in a state of uncertainty and lack of a strong foundation and person of authority. The Great Schism of 1054 greatly affected Europe and the rest of the modern world. This great rift between the Eastern and Western Churches caused the rapid development of each side in different ways. What were the effects of this schism on the Eastern part of Europe? The Eastern Catholic Church…

All inhabitants of earth suffered a wide spread epidemic known as narcisexualvapitism. A nocuous virus that loomed all over the world like a tarantula hugging a ping pong ball was the cause of the extinction of the human race. It's important to realize that it was not like Ebola, influenza, rotavirus, the myopic TRNTB cult or the four horsemen of the apocalypse while auguring which horse befits which horsemen. The inane seed was planted by the ever-increasing platitudinous in the early 21st…

The Catholic Reformation was the church’s response to the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Reformation was also known as the Counter Reformation. The Catholic Reformation occurred in the 16th and 17th century. The Catholic Reformation was caused by many differences between the church and people of Europe. Mainly any follower of the western Christian churches called the Protestants. The Protestants are followers of the principles of reformation, such as Lutheran and Baptist churches. The…

Walter Burkert attempts to analyze common threads found in early religions in an attempt to find out the underlying principles around the formation of religious beliefs. While some are more likely than others to be commonplace, such as practices of celibacy and sacrifice, others parallel behaviors of the society in which they were founded. In this piece, Burkert looks…

[4] Born on March 10, 1950, in a town in Rhode Island named Woonsocket, which is an Indian word for “Land of Thunder” Raymond Arthur Drainville conveniently attended Providence College for three years. [2] As a child, Raymond grew up in a Catholic family. [5] Although he was a successful, diligent, and prosperous tractor-trailer driver for years, Raymond never truly knew what he wanted to do with his life when he was an adult – he always imagined himself as retired. [1] God intervened, however,…

There are many similarities and differences found in the religions of India and the Far East. Some of the religions of India include Hinduism and Jainism and of the Far East include Daoism, Confucianism, and Shinto which is not considered to be a religion in the same sense as traditional religions but an important element of Japanese spirituality, honoring spirits and things coming to be. Hinduism is described as a “range from extreme sensuality, heights of personal devotion of a deity to…

In this essay, I will argue that Malthus’s theory of overpopulation is not relevant, especially within contemporary politics because the problem is not “overpopulation.” There are other factors that must be taken into consideration: technological advances, preventative checks, and the total wealth of a country. Malthus was one of the first philosophers in the nineteenth century to attempt to apply mathematical concepts to society. The book foreshadowed a wretched and grim future with the notion…

her classmates, Mrs. Breedlove, and Cholly she imagines that they will say “Why look at pretty-eyed Pecola. We mustn’t do bad things in front of those pretty eyes”(46). She becomes very desperate and attempts to seek help from Soaphead, a man who’s celibacy makes the women in town believe he is supernatural. Pecola begs him to grant her blue eyes and he says he will. Pecola wants her eyes to be blue, so she pretends that they are. Her blue eyes are the only thing that can help her get through a…

In Mary Doria Russell’s novel The Sparrow, the complexities of social and structural sin, as well as fate and free will are evident. In class, we defined free will as making the conscious decisions of the choices in one’s life, and fate as very one-dimensional, where one’s outcome is already pre-determined (Theodicy PPT). In a story where God is present, it is hard to decide whether following what you believe to be Gods path is fate or free will, which is challenged in The Sparrow. Furthermore,…